This workshop offers new pathways for visual artists to engage with the creative application of novel materials and technology. The aim is to encourage participants to learn values and new art practices so as they can explore new forms of expression in interactive art and design projects. During the workshop participants will develop their own interactive collage. We will use the AgIC’s circuit marker kit. No previous experience with electronics needed.
The MFA Design Technology welcomes Illustration, Fine Arts, and Communication Design students who are interested in basic circuits or an introduction to technology tools.
Bio:
Paola Guimerans is an artist, interaction designer and educator. Her artistic exploration investigates materials, techniques and processes for blending soft electronics and computation as a medium for creating expressive and personally meaningful technological arts. Through her professional artistic practices, Paola questions how to combine E-textiles and virtual media in order to explore new aesthetic alternatives and interactive means based on her drawings’ narratives. Thus, she points a critical aspect of how technology has been demystifying traditional possible methods by helping non technical people to use technology that influences conceptual and aesthetics in the recent field of New Media art with focuses on Visual Arts & Craft practices of making with electronics.

2.
Collage,
from
the
French
word
coller,
which
means
"to
s>ck,"
is
a
visual
art
technique
that
is
accomplished
by
gluing
objects
to
a
central
backing.
The
term
collage
was
coined
by
Georges
Braque
and
Pablo
Picasso
in
1912.
The
two
arMsts
worked
together
during
that
Mme
period
and
experimented
with
collage,
using
bits
of
glued
paper
added
to
charcoal
drawings.
Wikipedia

15.
• Understand the collage as traditional fine art techniques to create a circuit that is
combines aesthetics and functionality.
• Understand that LEDs arranged in a parallel configuration each receive the same
amount of voltage.
• Understand that multiple LEDs within one circuit should be arranged in parallel to
ensure that they all light up.
This workshop offers new pathways for visual artists to engage with the creative application
of novel materials and technology. The aim is to encourage participants to learn values and
new art practices so as they can explore new forms of expression in interactive art and
design projects. During the workshop participants will develop their own interactive collage.
We will use the AgIC’s circuit marker kit. No previous experience with electronics needed.
GOALS

16.
Step 1
Draw a parallel circuit.
Circuit markers lets you
draw electric circuits on
paper. You just need to write
a line for on stroke and the
line is thick enough to place
the Agic kit components
( 3V, LEDs and aluminium
tape). Drawing a soft circuit
with a battery and two LEDs
involves nearly the same
steps as a single circuit
Note
When creating soft circuits,
it’s possible to replace
traditional electronics wires
for other conductive
materials. For example
copper tape, conductive
thread or fabric

17.
Step 2
Plan your circuit using a
pencil. It’s necessary to
know what would be the
collage composition like
before starting adding light
and electronics components
to the paper
Take your time to
understand the systems and
remember to take into
consideration the concepts
about soft circuits.
Note
AgIC is a silver-based ink
that comes in marker form. It
only works on EPSON
Glossy Photo Paper.

18.
Step 3
The electrical connection
between LEDs will be drawn
with Agic silver ink. Keep in
mind that when you use
conductive ink electricity
becomes a medium of the
visual arts.
You must consider how you
are going to attach these
elements to your mixed
media artwork.

19.
Step 4
After the circuit is finished,
you are now ready to
complete your collage.
Note
Making a switch. In a
parallel circuit, the current
will flow through the closed
paths and not through the
open paths. In order to
achieve a parallel circuit in
your drawing, you would
need an open path in the
conductive circuit. To do the
open path in your drawing
all you need is to erase that
path with the AgIC Circuit
Eraser.